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by DannyB2 7y ago
Considering that back in the 1980's we figured out that you should use some kind of 'integer' or 'bcd' based type for financial calculations; it is astonishing that by almost 2020 people are making these same mistak
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by DannyB2 7y ago
The real benefit of this is that for the next hundred years or so, you can continue to set your VHS Recorder's clock / calendar, which has only a two digit year. Some of them display weak day calculated from the year. So always
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by DannyB2 7y ago
If there were one perfect language, for all porpoises, we would be using it already. Also a genuine dollars and cents factor: Development Time. Do not just measure for cpu cycles and bytes. Development time is money, and that is a measura
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by DannyB2 7y ago
If people as a whole aren't smart enough on average to prevent it getting this bad, then maybe our species doesn't deserve to continue. I hate to sound negative. It seems that better education might be a start. But it takes at l
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by DannyB2 7y ago
If a language dies because nobody uses it, what is the point of trying to keep it alive? Maybe I'm dense, but it seems to me that the world might be simpler with fewer spoken / written languages rather than more? LEVEL I BASIC is
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Yes. That! I quickly learned the difference. Downloading from YouTube breaks. No distro update. But updating only the script is quick and easy. Initial installation is also very easy. Two one-line recipies to install it are provided.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
From TFA . . . > Tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook have ncreasingly > built end-to-end encryption into their products and software > in recent years — billing it as a privacy and security feature Because Facebook and G
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by DannyB2 7y ago
I would propose an alternative to the article: mainframe personnel should spend 3 months with kubernetes.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
I would point out that mainframes pioneered one of the earliest and most powerful encryption systems still used on mainframes: EBCDIC /s :-)
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Yes, that. Modern cluster systems are designed on the premise that hardware and software fails. Netflix's 'chaos monkey' software is an example of something that goes around randomly breaking things within clusters just to s
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by DannyB2 7y ago
> there are two sets of entry-level knowledge workers at Facebook: > engineers ($150k/year, benefits, upward career trajectory) and > content moderators ($30k/year, no benefits, likely going to acquire mental illnesses).
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by DannyB2 7y ago
It is interesting how many of those screenshots include an open web browser.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Am I remembering correctly that in Orwell's 1984 (the book), music and poetry was created by machines?
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Here is a good video showing the same two guys passing the card back and forth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIbFvK2S9g8 If a security camera uses this YOLO to identify people moving into the frame, then this important n
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by DannyB2 7y ago
My point: if someone is going to assert that another platform is competitive with JVM, then not only is performance important, but capabilities as well. While no language / platform / os / etc is perfect, JVM as a managed run
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Java Licensing: If you want to pay for a supported Java, with long term ongoing patches: call a commercial vendor of Java such as Oracle, Azul Systems, etc. If you want a free and open source Java runtime, use Open JDK. Some sources of Op
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Also I would point out that your compiled Java binary apps might run just fine on a platform not existing at the time it was compiled. Example: I wrote a Mandelbrot program compiled as a double-clickable JAR. Nearly a decade later I find t
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Yes, benchmarks. But it's not just benchmarks. It's capabilities. He should please provide references that compare other runtime platforms' capabilities side by side with JVM's capabilities.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Then why is Clojure implemented on the JVM? As Rich Hickey says: because it has _reach_ The JVM is widely used. ClojureScript on JS is because JS also has reach.
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by DannyB2 7y ago
JVM has two new open source garbage collector implementations that are designed for TERABYTES of heap space with 10 ms GC pause times. (yes you read that correctly) ZGC from Oracle -- but open source Shenandoah from Red Hat -- also open so
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Thanks
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by DannyB2 8y ago
That last line is a good one. How about the 'influencers' work for free to build up more followers. If you spend your own money to go on vacations and post videos / pictures, then you will get followers.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Some people say there is no harm in the "influencers" asking. From TFA... > resorts in the Maldives were swamped with influencer inquiries > has faced such an overwhelming number of inquiries from “influencers” over the past
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by DannyB2 8y ago
From TFA... > resorts in the Maldives were swamped with influencer inquiries > has faced such an overwhelming number of inquiries from “influencers” over the past six months that the hotel has stopped working with them It's like
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by DannyB2 8y ago
There needs to be a pronunciation guide for: Scryer. I can think of several alternatives. I'm currently thinking of: s-crier. Rhymes with cryer. But it would be nice to know for sure.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
It is probably to have no more of those six-wide seats across type strollers. Okay, probably really only three, I've never seen six across actually. But when you encounter them, they take up multiple pedestrian lanes and are difficult
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Assuming Google doesn't need to hide anything, being GPL free could be so that others (like device drivers) don't need to release source code.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
. . . because the FCC won't do its job.
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by DannyB2 8y ago
It is also quite interesting to observe how the public almost universally despises their ISP, Cable TV and Mobile Phone companies. What other companies get such hate? (excluding: Tobacco, Big Pharma, and Oracle)
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by DannyB2 8y ago
Reading the article, a takeaway message seems to be that overcrowing in prisons made the per inmate cost lower. Example: there were four prisoners to each guard. Now there are two. That just increased the per inmate cost. Harvard probably

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